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toomanyducks
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
that's also really interesting, thanks!
toomanyducks
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This. It's really easy to view our neoliberal climate as wholly dependent on the individual when you're priveralaged and already, in some way, succeeding. I did, and then I came out as trans, and also as nonbinary. Now, 'the system' is so much more important. Old white men's opinions on my existence could take away my transition (both medical and social) and my life with enough effort, or they could simply deny efforts to improve it (as they so often do). And I can't imagine what it would be like to deal with this and/or be non-white, disabled, or non-rich, for a few examples. In some ways I'm lucky to understand both perspectives, but the perspective of the unprivelaged matters so much more.

This is why I feel that an individual contribution from my life is not enough. No matter how many fires I put out in people's homes, there's still going to be that fucking arsonist.
toomanyducks
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'll second the other Gen z person in the replies and say that lots of us hate thumb typing and if we're going to generalize across every single living person by one factor, my experience is that typing speed goes down with age.
toomanyducks
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Where do you get that confidence? Reading the article, I'm mostly seeing somewhat deliberately hyped-up claims and hand-wavey references to AI, neither of which give me much confidence in this tech taking a tremendous leap anytime soon. Still very impressive, but as someone who knows nothing about the tech, I'm not sure why I should expect it to improve so quickly?